Posted on 07/19/2015 5:53:23 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has argued that Christians who hold a traditional view of marriage are being "bullied" by society into changing their minds on gay marriage, noting that couples find themselves in an "uncomfortable position."
"There are voices in our culture that no longer think marriage need be for life, or be open to children, or be exclusive, or be between man and wife," Fisher said at a homily, according to a Catholic News Service report on Wednesday.
He added that "some politically, culturally and commercially powerful forces are determined to silence any alternative to the politically correct position in this matter; to bully us all into accepting the deconstruction and redefinition of a fundamental institution; and to relegate questions of what marriage is and is for as secondary to an homogenizing 'equality.'"
The archbishop argued that for Christians, the "God-given mission [is] to love not just with a self-serving, romantic, heart-shaped Valentine's Day sort of love, but with a self-giving, redemptive, cross-shaped Easter sort of love."
Fisher's comments come in light of a renewed push for same-sex marriage in Australia, with advocates buoyed by the recent victories in Ireland and the United States.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has maintained, however, that his country will not follow the Irish example and hold a referendum on the issue. Abbott further revealed that he is the last person in his family to uphold traditional marriage.
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WATCH: TUR THREATENS TO SEND BREITBART’S BEN SHAPIRO HOME IN AN AMBULANCE DURING JENNER DISCUSSION
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The Gaystapo at work.
The solution to this problem is clear: that churches must “take back” marriage. The way for them to do this is two fold, to register all legitimate marriages made by them and other denominations that respect marriage; and importantly, to *not* recognize any marriages outside of their domains.
This means that their congregants can choose to not register their marriages with the government, which is the intended outcome of this; and they, as churches, do not recognize secular marriages and marriages in churches who do not maintain the traditional view of marriage.
Complaining about things until the churches decide to do this is pretty meaningless, as secular government is an immovable object when it comes to morality.
In America I see these verses now with more emphasis on the ‘lot’,’ Sodom’ and ‘marrying and giving in marriage’ part than I ever had noticed before.
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” Luke 17:26-30
Homostapo, because there's nothing GAY about it.
Interestingly enough, I don’t think marriage mattered that much in Sodom if they wanted to rape visitors, essentially cheating on their spouses and trying to injure the visitors in the same move.
“Bullied”?
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Christians who remain faithful will face dispossession, persecution, incarceration, and eventually death.
The “marriage” thing was the point of Christian resistance in our society.
That’s all they were looking for, the point of resistance.
“How far can we push them until they resist?”
Then they criminalize that resistance.
The point is to criminalize Christianity.
Yup, and that’s what the other tyrants and totalitarian movements pretty much did as well. However, they can also try being thorough, where they go after relatives just to be sure that there are no “secret Christians” it was an error and the failure of the Romans in their purges.
Exactly right. The last thing they want to happen is for their worst enemies to capitulate on ‘gay marriage.’
Freegards
Point taken, though I’m not sure how monogamous the married Lot 2.0 of America is intending to be?
Though that scripture (I believe) just means life appears to be going along in a somewhat normal fashion to those still asleep until a certain day comes along when everything changes, regardless though, there will be signs of that day approaching and so now in Sodom USA, they can both go hand in hand together (no pun intended)
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